Summary

Today digital information environment is rich with varied types of information
that is available anytime, anywhere at a user's fingertips. While children and young adults constitute a high percent of the online population worldwide
and are being characterized as savvy and born digital, there is a need to examine how what has been considered a
"distraction" in using the web can be transformed into valuable information that these young users are enable to
capture and use at a later time. Models of information seeking in traditional environments may be valuable in predicting partial information seeking of young
users. However, they do not account for information discovery or information encountering
throughout the information seeking process. This panel will cover digital inquiry and information literacy in the new digital environment and
will suggest a new mechanism for a deeper perspective on young users' information seeking.